Designing interfaces or applications that move beyond the bounds of a single device screen
enables new ways to engage with digital content. Research addressing the opportunities …

The accessibility of infovis authoring tools to a wide audience has been identified as a major
research challenge. A key task in the authoring process is the development of visual …

In this chapter, we briefly review the development of natural user interfaces and discuss their
role in providing human-computer interaction that is immersive in various ways. Then we …

Multi-touch and tangible interfaces provide unique opportunities for enhancing learning and
discovery with big data. However, existing interaction techniques have limitations when …

Well-designed interactions for visualization systems hold great promise both for empowering
people to effectively complete their tasks and for providing more natural and engaging user …

We present SynFlo, a tangible museum exhibit for exploring bio-design. SynFlo utilizes
active and concrete tangible tokens to allow visitors to experience a playful biodesign …

We demonstrate CubeQuery, a tangible user interface providing a physical way to both
create and manipulate basic database queries. This interactive installation is designed for …

We present a case study of applying TEI research to a data-intense scientific workflow that
requires the exploration of large datasets through the construction of complex queries. We …

Interactive visualization plays a key role in the analysis of large datasets. It can help users to
explore data, investigate hypotheses and find patterns. The easier and more tangible the …

We present Sparse Tangibles, a tabletop and active tangible-based framework to support
cross-platform, collaborative gene network exploration using a Web interface. It uses …